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Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, where do our politicians stand on the role of Government in health regulation?

Kaitiaki launches an eight-day crash course on how our politicians plan to fix a health system in crisis. We've posed eight questions to the main parties. Now we're rolling out their responses - or lack thereof - before the Election. Today we ask: What is your position on the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Bill?

Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, how will (or won’t) our politicians fix pay equity?

Kaitiaki launches an eight-day crash course on how our politicians plan to fix a health system in crisis. We've posed eight questions to the main parties. Now we're rolling out their responses - or lack thereof - before the Election. Today we ask: What will you do to support pay equity for women-dominated workforces?

Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, how will (or won’t) our politicians support nursing graduates?

Kaitiaki launches an eight-day crash course on how our politicians plan to fix a health system in crisis. We've posed eight questions to the main parties. Now we're rolling out their responses - or lack thereof - before the Election. Today we ask: How will you support New Zealand-trained nursing graduates into work?

Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, how will (or won’t) our politicians support nursing students?

Kaitiaki launches an eight-day crash course on how our politicians plan to fix a health system in crisis. We've posed eight questions to the main parties. Now we're rolling out their responses - or lack thereof - before the Election. Today we ask: How will you support nursing students to complete their studies -- particularly … Continue reading "Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, how will (or won’t) our politicians support nursing students?"

Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, where do our politicians stand on privatising health?

Kaitiaki launches an eight-day crash course on how our politicians plan to fix a health system in crisis. We've posed eight questions to the main parties. Now we're rolling out their responses - or lack thereof - before the Election. Today we ask: What’s your position on privatisation in the health system?

Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, how will (or won’t) our politicians ensure culturally-safe health care?

Kaitiaki launches an eight-day crash course on how our politicians plan to fix a health system in crisis. We've posed eight questions to the main parties. Now we're rolling out their responses - or lack thereof - before the Election. Today we ask: To honour Te Tiriti, will you support kawa whakaruruhau as a requirement … Continue reading "Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, how will (or won’t) our politicians ensure culturally-safe health care?"

Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, how will (or won’t) our politicians fix pay parity?

Kaitiaki launches an eight-day crash course on how our politicians plan to fix a health system in crisis. We've posed eight questions to the main parties. Now we're rolling out their responses - or lack thereof - before the Election. Today we ask about pay parity: How will you close the pay gap between Health … Continue reading "Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, how will (or won’t) our politicians fix pay parity?"

Vote for health: From Labour to ACT, how will (or won’t) our politicians fix safe staffing?

Kaitiaki launches an eight-day crash course on how our politicians plan to fix a health system in crisis. We've posed eight questions to the main parties. Now we're rolling out their responses - or lack thereof - before the Election. Today we ask: How will you create a safely-staffed public health system?

Kaitiaki podcast: In the last precious weeks of life, what price pay equity?

The quality of death itself is on the line, a hospice nurse has warned, as the pay equity battle stalls for workers frustrated by an unworkable law.

‘Double slap in the face’ for Plunket nurses denied fair pay as workload snowballs

A Whānau Āwhina Plunket nurse says escalating workloads amid unfair pay rates have left her and colleagues feeling "undervalued" and fearing for vulnerable whānau.

‘Fed-up’ Gisborne ED staff don strike scrubs after bosses dispute they’re short nine nurses

Striking Gisborne Hospital staff say they're short nearly nine full-time ED staff -- but bosses say it's less than a single full-time nurse. What gives?

Nurse Lupe versus corporate giants: Patients travelling 125km just to get primary care

It was one community nurse from Palmy making herself heard against multi-billion dollar entities with global financial links.

If it walks like a cap, and talks like a cap, it’s actually a ‘managed enrolment process’

The Government agency funding nursing schools confirms it told them to keep student levels at 2025 numbers -- but denies it is a cap.

‘It’s a lie, Chris’ — health, nursing numbers key in closing election debates

One of the two Chris's was telling porkies -- but it was up to the audience, and the country, to decide.

Child cancer treatments ‘delayed not suspended’, claims minister amid damning new staffing revelations

Minister of Health Simeon Brown is denying nurses' reports that some child cancer treatments have been suspended for a week amid a staffing crisis at Starship Hospital's oncology ward.

Back to the future — ‘terrible’ order to cap nursing student numbers comes under fire

Nursing schools have been told to cap next year's student numbers at 2025 levels -- sparking criticism and fear over the future of the nursing workforce.

Why paid placements would help more of us become nurses — a student’s view

Becoming a nurse should depend on your commitment to caring for others, not whether you can afford to complete your placements without an income, writes a Christchurch nursing student.

‘The scope has changed. The workforce is ready. The need is clear.’

NZNO's enrolled nurses are calling for greater recognition and utilisation of ENs as Aotearoa responds to ongoing health-care access pressures and nursing workforce shortages.

‘Now the real work begins’ say HCAs after NZNO pledges to strengthen carer workforce

It has been a 'long road' but health-care assistants are welcoming NZNO's formal adoption of a plan to support, grow and strengthen the HCA and kaiāwhina workforce.

If we have enrolled nurses, why aren’t we letting them nurse?

Outdated funding contracts and attitudes are preventing enrolled nurses from working to their fullest scope in aged care, writes the Aged Care Association chief executive.

‘Without a shred of emotion in her voice’: Sue Bradford dissects pay equity wipe-out

Speaking at the NZNO annual conference, Sue Bradford, people's select committee member, shared the story of a group set up to give voice to workers and women on pay equity -- and the "different kind of democracy" they discovered.

Survivors join diplomats to remember 53 nurses killed in the Christchurch quake

Survivors and nurses joined dignitaries from China and Thailand at the opening of Never Forgotten-- a poignant exhibit honouring 53 nurses from around the world who died in Christchurch's 6.3 magnitude earthquake on February 22, 2011.

‘I don’t like to be silenced’: NZNO’s new student leaders reveal what drives them

Connected by a desire to care for others and push for change, NZNO's newest student leaders are not afraid to speak up.

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